{"id":2204,"date":"2013-03-01T12:06:35","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T20:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/?p=2204"},"modified":"2013-03-01T12:06:35","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T20:06:35","slug":"rocco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/?p=2204","title":{"rendered":"Rocco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The first thing that struck me about Rocco was his size &#8212; when you&#8217;ve grown used to having a 45 pound &#8220;mini&#8221; Lab around the house it&#8217;s easy to forget just how big Labs can be. And Rocco&#8217;s not just big, he&#8217;s 90+ pounds of gregarious goofiness bundled into a shiny black coat of fur, all smiles and floppy ears. He is also a stick-destroying retrieving machine. So, naturally, he got to celebrate his 8th birthday in part by doing what he does (and loves) best: running, dock jumping, hanging with his peeps, and showing sticks who&#8217;s boss (or trying to &#8212; he ran across a pretty formidable opponent that managed to survive).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Rocco is a not-so-subtle reminder of what I love about not just Labs, but all dogs: their seemingly boundless enthusiasm for the simple joys in life. After all, it&#8217;s not the size of the stick that matters, but who you get to bring it back to at the end of a retrieve.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"020913_Rocco_15\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/020913_Rocco_151.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"020913_Rocco_11\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/020913_Rocco_111.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full aligncenter\" title=\"020913_Rocco_01\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.anthonyhelton.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/020913_Rocco_011.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"p3-insert-all size-full 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